Tenths Quotes

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at least nine-tenths of all the original reality ever created lies outside the multiverse, and since the multiverse by definition includes absolutely everything that is… — Terry Pratchett
Man designs for himself a garden with a hundred kinds of trees, a thousand kinds of flowers, a hundred kinds of fruit and vegetables. Suppose,… — Hermann Hesse
I always say perseverance is nine-tenths of any art â€” not that it's much help to be nine-tenths an artist, of course. — Peter S. Beagle
Ella was vapid and worthless at least nine-tenths of the time, but when she got really mad, her face became sharp and purposeful. Almost vicious.… — Francine Pascal
Did I hate him, then? Indeed, I believe so. A love like that can grow to be nine-tenths hatred and still call itself love. — C.S. Lewis
On our honeymoon we talked and talked. We stayed in a beachfront villa, and we drank rum and lemonade and talked so much that I… — Chris Cleave
I would give all I possess to get out of myself; but somehow, at the end, I find myself so vastly more interesting than nine… — Henry James
Nine tenths of wisdom consists in being wise in time. — Theodore Roosevelt
The fact is that the average man's love of liberty is nine-tenths imaginary, exactly like his love of sense, justice and truth. — H. L. Mencken
Nine tenths of the ills from which intelligent people suffer spring from their intellect. — Marcel Proust
It is a popular fact that nine-tenths of the brain is not used and, like most popular facts, it is wrong. Not even the most… — Terry Pratchett
I realized early in my career that precisely what one reader doesn't like is what another reader loves. Collectively, any writer's audience presents a mishmash… — Karen Marie Moning
You are horrified at our intending to do away with private property. But in your existing society, private property is already done away with for… — Karl Marx
That's the way it is: life inculdes a lot of empty space. We are one-tenth living tissue, nine-tenths water; life is one-tenth Here and Now,… — Graham Swift
Quarkbeasts, for all their fearsome looks, are obedient to a fault. They are nine-tenths velociraptor and kitchen blender and one-tenth Labrador. It was the Labrador… — Jasper Fforde
Better far off to leave half the ruins and nine-tenths of the churches unseen and to see well the rest; to see them not once,… — Augustus Hare
Courage is nine-tenths context. What is courageous in one setting can be foolhardy in another and even cowardly in a third. — Joseph Epstein
I think that one possible definition of our modern culture is that it is one in which nine- tenths of our intellectuals can't read any… — Randall Jarrell
In 1889, I predict, the legislative stage of the Irish question will have arrived; and the union with England, which shall then have cursed Ireland… — John Boyle O'Reilly
Eliminating some 3600 post offices - mostly rural - will save the USPS less than seven tenths of one percent of their operating budget, but… — Winona LaDuke

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